Manuscripts
The collection deals primarily with Edwin Bliss Hill's activities as a private printer, as a founder of the Frank Holme Memorial Group, and as a collector of books and manuscripts. There are 274 manuscripts including manuscripts by Hill and Frank Holme; poetry and prose to be printed by Hill; and biographical sketches of Holme. The materials by and about Holme were collected by Hill and others as part of the Memorial Group endeavors. There are 1,807 pieces of correspondence including letters to and from Edwin Bill Hill chiefly about private printing; Hill's press and materials to be printed; the Frank Holme Memorial Group; and Thoreau scholarship, texts, etc. and book and manuscript collection. There are letters to and from Frank Holme chiefly about the School of Illustration and the Bandar Log Press. There are 476 printed items including proofsheets from Hill's press; miscellaneous pamphlets, bookmarks, calling cards, etc.; and clippings. Persons represented by three or more pieces:
Avery, Bertha Grant: 63 poems
Babson, Joseph E.: 17 manuscripts and notes
Hill, Edwin Bliss: 5 manuscripts
Holme, Frank: 10 manuscripts, and 22 volumes of diaries
Starrett, Vincent: 20 manuscripts, plus miscellaneous notes
Adams, Raymond: 1928-1942. 6 pieces
Ade, George [before 1905]-1942. 14 pieces
Allen, Francis Henry: 1918-1942. 15 pieces
Arizona. Dept. of Library and Archives: 1942-1945. 8 pieces
Arizona. University. Library: 1934-1944. 10 pieces
Avery, Bertha Grant: 1923-1933. 19 pieces
Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy: 1938-1944. 15 pieces
Barber, George W: 1913-1914. 8 pieces
Bay, J Christian: 1939-1947. 9 pieces
Chalmers, Stephen: 1917-1926. 7 pieces
Comfort, Will Levington: 1920-1932. 5 pieces
Coolidge, Dane: 1912-1939. 6 pieces
Cooper, Oswald Bruce: 1900-1938. 6 pieces
Cuala Press: 1923-1941. 23 pieces
Dean, Eva: 1908-1943. 75 pieces
Dobell (Percy J and Arthur E) (firm): 1915-1945. 7 pieces
Finch, Edward J: 1944-1948. 14 pieces
Finger, Charles Joseph: 1920-1935. 6 pieces
Fitzgerald, Percy: 1897 and undated. 5 pieces
Foley, Patrick Kevin: 1919-1935. 8 pieces
Forrest, Earle Robert: 1936-1949. 24 pieces
Ganz, Charles: 1934-1948. 37 pieces
Gjelsness, Rudolph H: 1938-1942. 7 pieces
Hayden, Carl: 1939-1946. 6 pieces
Hill, Edwin Bliss: 1918-1948. 35 pieces
Holme, Frank: 1899-1904. 142 pieces
Holme, Ida May (Van Dyke): 1930-1941. 21 pieces
Jaques, Bertha: 1906-1941. 13 pieces
Kitt, Edith O: 1933-1948. 5 pieces
Kleiner, Rheinhart: 1944-1948. 7 pieces
Lamb (Charles) Society: 1935-1948. 24 pieces
Larremore, Thomas Armitage: 1938. 5 pieces
LaShelle, Kirke: 1902-1946. 6 pieces
Lockwood, Francis Cummins: 1934-1935. 10 pieces
Marshall, Vause W: 1938. 6 pieces
Mazzanovich, Anton: 1933-1934. 18 pieces
Mighels, Ella (Sterling): 1930-1931. 19 pieces
Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner: 1888-1896. 6 pieces
Morris, Frank M: 1915-1925. 16 pieces
Newton, Alfred Edward: 1918-1940. 18 pieces
Phillips, Grace: 1945-1946. 6 pieces
Plarr, Victor G.: 1894-1906. 5 pieces
Ransom, Will: 1925-1948. 11 pieces
Robinson, Grace (Perley): 1938-1943. 5 pieces
Seymour, George Steele: 1919-1943. 5 pieces
Shaw, Mary W: 1926-1927. 5 pieces
Sloan, Charles H: 1931-1944. 73 pieces
Starrett, Vincent: 1918-1948. 223 pieces
West, Herbert Faulkner: 1940-1948. 21 pieces
White, Viola C: 1935-1949. 6 pieces
Williamson, Dan R: 1934-1940. 12 pieces
Woollen, Frank David: 1918-1925. 114 pieces
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet: 1914-1939. 51 pieces
Yeats, William Butler: 1918-1920 and undated. 6 pieces
Some notable items include:
Brown, Ray - letter to Francis Cummins Lockwood, Feb. 24, 1927, is a lengthy recollection of Frank Holme and includes many details of his life.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne - typescript of a suppressed chapter from Life on the Mississippi.
Dean, Eva - letters to Edwin Bliss Hill contain recollections of Frank Holme. Eva Dean had been a student at Holme's School of Illustration.
DeVinne, Theodore Low - two letters to Hill concerning printing.
Emerson, Edward Waldo - letter to Francis Cummins Lockwood about Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Forrest, Earle Robert - letters to Hill about Forrest's life as a cowboy and about the book he co-authored with Hill, Lone War Trail of Apache Kid.
Hill, Edwin Bliss - list of books printed on his press; and a series of 29 letters and one postcard to Vincent Starrett (1918-1948) discuss Hill's printing and literary pursuits.
Holme, Frank - letters written to Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1901, when Holme was away in Asheville, discuss the details of running his School of Illustration.
Holme, Ida May (Van Dyke) - correspondence to Hill provides information and dates regarding Frank Holme's life.
Jones, Haydon - letter of June 15, 1944, to Hill recalls events in Frank Holme's life.
Starrett, Vincent - extensive correspondence with Hill concerning works of his printed by Hill, with enclosures of manuscripts, proofsheets and lay-outs.
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet - correspondence to Hill mentioning various members of the Yeats family and discussing her Cuala Press.
Yeats, William Butler - an introductory essay addressed to Lady Gregory, 4 letters to Hill, and one letter to Lily Yeats.
